By Néstor CASTIGLIONE It’s Saturday, the night is young, and you’re looking for a change of pace from your usual round of drinks over at The Regal Beagle. What to do? Pittance Chamber Music might have just the thing for you with its “Three’s Company” program. Pittance Chamber Music, a series featuring players from the […]
By Charly SHELTON The Antelope Valley Poppy Preserve is in bloom, at least as bloomed as it’s going to get this year. There aren’t very many poppies this season because the winter wasn’t very wet, but there are a good selection of other wildflowers to brighten the hillsides of the Antelope Valley. Located just a […]
By Néstor CASTIGLIONE Pianist Charles Fierro, a stalwart of the local musical scene best known to locals as a regular guest performer at the Glendale Noon Concerts, passed away last December after a brief illness. During his life his art elicited praise from the likes of Aaron Copland and Nadia Boulanger, the latter praising his […]
By Charly SHELTON Warner Bros. Studios has been around since the heyday of silent movies. It was founded in 1923 and has been the distributor of many of the films now referred to as “the classics:” “Casablanca” from 1942, “Gone with the Wind” from 1939, “The Maltese Falcon” from 1941, “The Jazz Singer” from 1927 […]
BY STEVE ZALL AND SID FISH April 2018 Here are some of the shows you can see in our local theatres this month: OPENING “Medea” Medea is a wife, a mother, and an immigrant. When her husband abandons his family for a new life, she exacts an appalling revenge and destroys […]
By Charly SHELTON Descanso Gardens is our own Central Park in the Crescenta Valley. It’s a meeting place, a quiet retreat, a tourist attraction and, now, a brunch hot spot. Whether it’s after a morning stroll through the gardens or before heading out, Maple at Descanso Gardens offers an expansive brunch that hits the spot, […]
The 34th Annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards Gala celebrates the winners of the writers and illustrators of the Future Contests that honor 12 writers and 12 illustrators from around the world in the genres of science fiction and fantasy on the theme of “Magic and Wizardry.” The event, with celebrity award presenters, will be […]
By Néstor CASTIGLIONE Considering the epochal nature of World War II and how its aftermath has essentially bequeathed to us our world of today, the disappearance of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Sixth Symphony” from concert programs and recordings, at least in the United States, is a scandalous omission in our collective cultural memory. “[To] anyone who […]
By Néstor CASTIGLIONE The title of last Saturday night’s Salastina Society program was a tellingly double-edged one. Called “Second Class Citizens,” the program’s name resonated as much for composers marginalized from the grand narrative of musical history as for the present-day concern for those peoples who live and work in the midst of our society, […]
By Charly SHELTON “Come for my soul, you wardens of the sky! May it see my corpse, may it rest on my mummy, which will never be destroyed or perish.” ~ Spell 89, Egyptian Book of the Dead The Egyptians were great believers in the afterlife. Those who could afford it were buried in ornate […]